Upper Skagit Tribe v. United States

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UPPER SKAGIT INDIAN TRIBE, 

Plaintiff-Appellee, and

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Plaintiff, v.

STATE OF WASHINGTON,

Defendant, and No. 07-35061 D.C. Nos.

SUQUAMISH INDIAN TRIBE,



CV-70-09213-RSM

Defendant-Appellant, SP-05-00003-RSM v. ORDER AND

JAMESTOWN S’KLALLAM TRIBE; OPINION

LOWER ELWHA KLALLAM TRIBE;

LUMMI INDIAN NATION; NISQUALLY

INDIAN TRIBE; PORT GAMBLE

S’KLALLAM TRIBE; SKOKOMISH

INDIAN TRIBE; TULALIP TRIBE,

Plaintiff-intervenors-Appellees,

SWINOMISH INDIAN TRIBAL

COMMUNITY,

Cross-claimant-Appellee.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington Ricardo S. Martinez, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted October 21, 2008—Seattle, Washington

209 210 UPPER SKAGIT INDIAN TRIBE v. WASHINGTON Filed January 5, 2010

Before: Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain, Pamela Ann Rymer and Andrew J. Kleinfeld, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Rymer; Dissent by Judge Kleinfeld UPPER SKAGIT INDIAN TRIBE v. WASHINGTON 211

COUNSEL

Michelle Hansen, Office…